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The Iliad
by Homer
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Customer Review: As with the Bible, the translation or more specifically the translator is key. Not everyone can move poetry in one language into another. This is true of the Iliad, certainly true the the myriad mistranslations of the Bible. Kindle must include this ...
Beowulf
by N/A
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Customer Review: i read and heard so many beowulf stories and this is barly anything like them
Ethics
by Aristotle
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Customer Review: The bad: This writing is scattered, a product of its antiquated time, and Aristotle really needed an editor to trim the spare words out.
The good: Ethics features a couple of key points which are really useful, those being that virtues...
Politics: A Treatise on Government
by Aristotle
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Customer Review: I found that Aristotle provided many brilliant insights into the political thinking, strategy, of leaders and the military. In many ways, it remains unsurpassed and it ought to be required reading in undergraduate classes on political strategy. On ...
Leviathan
by Thomas Hobbes
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The Odyssey
by Homer
Amazon Price: $9.94
Customer Review: Fast shipping-- I ordered wednesday night and received my books(also ordered The Iliad- same translation) on friday morning. Books came new and exactly as advertised. Very pleased!!
The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun
by J.R.R. Tolkien
Amazon Price: $15.65
Customer Review: This is very much a mixed bag.
Besides the scholarly apparatus, which isn't especially well-done or clear to anyone who hasn't (like, fortunately, I did) read the Elder Edda and Nibelungenlied several times through, the choice to format ...
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